Cats Eating My Dinner - part 2

How naive of me -- I didn't take the dinner shenanigans the other night
seriously...

Tonight I made a beef roast for DH, knowing he'd had a long week, and, yes,
I admit I was looking forward to it as well -- been eating a lot of "energy
bar" meals on the fly this week. Celeste is ill with a bad cold so I agreed
to let her eat her dinner in the den on the sofa, so I go to take her food
to her...

Yes, I did tell DH before I left the table to watch the cats and not let
them "help themselves." My plate was still on the counter along with a
slice of beef -- in close proximity lay the roasting pan with leftovers...

I leave the room...

Only for a few seconds...

I come back to DH chasing Omar off the table while Midnight (!!) has
daintily snagged a piece of meat off the roast with her paw and is
addressing it with gusto....I said, "Byron!" and arched my eyebrow over to
the counter and he retorted, "But I was getting Omar..."

"Midnight!!!" I say in an accusatory voice...before I can get another word
out...there goes that paw again! I forgot myself, folks, and slapped
(lightly, I must add) her paw lightly while I took the roast pan off the
counter. She was incensed and hissed at me...I was incensed and I hissed
back (can't believe I did that, neither could DH who was cracking up). I
looked her straight in the eye, took up the roast pan protectively and
firmly said, "Mine!"

Was she remorseful -- h*ll, no! I turned to DH for commiseration, not howls
of laughter, mind you...and
Midnight's paw was laden with a scrap of roast from MY plate!

She hissed at me!! I took MY plate and sat down at the table, finally, after
applying the 10-second kitty rule contamination rule and deciding that I'd
better eat before I lost more to "THE PAW."

In the end, she got me back as I knew she would -- Middie is smart and
vindictive and found a new place to anoint HER property (DH's countertop in
our bedroom)...sigh, sometimes I think I single-handedly support those cat
enzyme cleaner companies and Bounty paper towels.

Stay tuned...I'm sure there will be a round 3...

Christine

Christine Burel wrote:
snip of hilarious story
Stay tuned...I'm sure there will be a round 3...

ROFL! I'm sorry about your dinner, Christine, but ROFL! Eagerly looking
forward to round 3. )

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Christine Burel wrote:
snip of hilarious story
Stay tuned...I'm sure there will be a round 3...

ROFL! I'm sorry about your dinner, Christine, but ROFL! Eagerly looking
forward to round 3. )

--
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:20:07 -0600, "Christine Burel"
wrote:

How naive of me -- I didn't take the dinner shenanigans the other night
seriously...
snip
Stay tuned...I'm sure there will be a round 3...

Great story, looking forward to round 3
--
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faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky

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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:20:07 -0600, "Christine Burel"
wrote:

How naive of me -- I didn't take the dinner shenanigans the other night
seriously...
snip
Stay tuned...I'm sure there will be a round 3...

Great story, looking forward to round 3
--
Steve Touchstone,
faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky

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"Christine Burel" had some very
interesting things to say about Cats Eating My Dinner - part 2:

"Midnight!!!" I say in an accusatory voice...before I can get another word
out...there goes that paw again! I forgot myself, folks, and slapped
(lightly, I must add) her paw lightly while I took the roast pan off the
counter. She was incensed and hissed at me...I was incensed and I hissed
back (can't believe I did that, neither could DH who was cracking up). I
looked her straight in the eye, took up the roast pan protectively and
firmly said, "Mine!"

I've been known to hiss back at Felix when he's mouthing off to me.
:-)

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

"Christine Burel" had some very
interesting things to say about Cats Eating My Dinner - part 2:

"Midnight!!!" I say in an accusatory voice...before I can get another word
out...there goes that paw again! I forgot myself, folks, and slapped
(lightly, I must add) her paw lightly while I took the roast pan off the
counter. She was incensed and hissed at me...I was incensed and I hissed
back (can't believe I did that, neither could DH who was cracking up). I
looked her straight in the eye, took up the roast pan protectively and
firmly said, "Mine!"

I've been known to hiss back at Felix when he's mouthing off to me.
:-)

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

Seanette Blaylock wrote:

I've been known to hiss back at Felix when he's mouthing off to me.
:-)

I hiss every time I get home and open my door, so no cats will slip past
me into the hall.

--
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Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
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Seanette Blaylock wrote:

I've been known to hiss back at Felix when he's mouthing off to me.
:-)

I hiss every time I get home and open my door, so no cats will slip past
me into the hall.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki